Numbers 16:41-50

Tree of Life Version

⁴¹ The next day, the entire community of Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You killed Adonai’s people!”

⁴² But when they gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the Tent of Meeting, behold, the cloud covered it and the glory appeared! ⁴³ Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting.

⁴⁴ Adonai spoke to Moses saying, ⁴⁵ “Get away from among this assembly so that I may immediately consume them!” So they fell on their faces.

⁴⁶ Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put into it fire from the altar and put in incense. Get going and hurry to the assembly and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from Adonai and the plague has started.”

⁴⁷ Aaron did just as Moses had said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. Behold, the plague had already started among the people. But he offered the incense and made atonement for the people. ⁴⁸ He stood between the dead and the living and the plague stopped. ⁴⁹ However, there were 14,700 dead from the plague, besides those who died because of Korah.

⁵⁰ Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, when the plague had been halted.